Sunday, 1 August 2010

1 August 2010 - Hadleigh, Essex & Didcot, Oxon

My other macro interest before heading for Essex was this carpet - could this be a Gallium Carpet? I guess the answer is going to be no, but....

I include the underwing snap as it was very different from the Common Carpet underwing that I let go.

I was then Essex-bound for Hadleigh Castle Country Park and the Southern Migrant Hawkers that arrived and were slowly disappearing. Thankfully they haven't all gone or been eaten with this chap showing well - just hanging around, waiting for the sun to come out.

This Emperor made very swift work of a Gatekeeper.

Many Scarce Emerald Damselflies in the ditches at this site.

Shaded Broad-bar

Wall Brown - my first one for a couple of years now. Always good to see.

Gatekeeper -still loads at this excellent site.

Six-spotted Burnet

Back in Oxfordshire, I resumed moth photography - nothing else new but these Uncertain Rustics still confuse...

Real-time Earth and Moon phase

About Ross Newham - The Bald Birder

My natural history delights, now back in Kent, after lots of travels and a couple of years in Oxfordshire. The arrival of Junior Baldie and Junioress Baldie has meant a change to my natural history habits - gone, for the time being, is all-day ringing and in place? Moths...